Instagram Back Online After Worldwide Outage

Normal service resumed after brief worldwide outage for the photo-sharing service

Users of Instagram have suffered another outage of the photo-sharing service, just a week after a major shakeup of its senior management team.

The service down for some users on Wednesday, and was reportedly not working for around 45 minutes before coming back online.

This is not the first time this has happened. Last month users around the world were impacted by an outage of major social networking services including Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, which Facebook blamed on a “networking issue.”

Instagram outage

Reports first began surfacing of Instagram’s outage on Wednesday morning at 9am London time.

That came just after it was revealed that WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton had clashed with Facebook management over its attempts to wring money from the app. Acton admitted that he had sold the privacy of WhatsApp users – one of the core principles upon which WhatsApp was founded.

It is not clear at this stage whether this advertising push also played a part in the departure of Systrom and Krieger.